The old saying suggests that “there’s no time like the present” – and that is, indeed, the case.  Now is all you have – Now is the moment in which you need to do your very best, regardless of what you’re doing or where you are, now.

If you’re doing something really mundane – like taking the dishes out of the dishwasher, or writing this month’s management report – do it as if your life depended upon it.  Because, in reality, it does.  If you insist, through normal automatic mindlessness, on doing your mundane tasks mundanely, your life will always be mundane – nothing exceptional will ever happen nor be achieved.  Is that the kind of life you want?

In contrast, you can choose to live an effortlessly happy and uncommonly successful life – the exact opposite of the normal life.   But that choice needs to be made NOW – in this moment – it’s not something you aspire to, nor do you only try to give your all when you think it’s important.  You have to give your all, all of the time – even in the most mundane tasks.  Because this moment, now, is all you have.  Now truly is the moment.